Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1922
CountryUnited States of America
book grateful knack
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
war character sick
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
religious luck awful
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.
lust rust love-and-lust
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
america library desks
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
littles jazz opinion
Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.
writing alive sacred
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
character want hocus-pocus
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
media white america
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
art forgiving sides
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
believe healing way
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
years eight scientist
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
book reading wonderful
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
writing thinking wells
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.